It's all about you

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I’m gonna take a quote from a speaker I listened to recently and slightly change it.

If you were arrested for (INSERT CHOICE HERE), would there be enough evidence to convict you?

I say “insert choice here” because that’s the way the quote has to be structured to make sense. At least to me and this writing.

You make a choice.

You carry out that choice.

When done, did you do it well enough to convince a jury of your peers you are guilty?

Please note - Guilt may carry a negative connotation, but it does not have to mean that. Guilt merely means it is determined you did something. That something can be good, bad or indifferent.

Anyway, move away from the simple things.

Look at that question in terms of how you claim to live your life, who you claim to be and what you claim to do.

I’m after a self-defining item here.

In other words, what do you want people to see in you, believe about you and think about you?

Now think about that for a moment.

Do you do it well enough that you can be honestly convicted of it, if put on trial.

Lemme sling some examples:

Honest. Are you honest? If someone had 24/7 unfettered access to your life, would they see you are really and truly honest?

Hard working. How about it? Do you give your all to you work? Play Farmville on company computers on company time?

Upright. How is your moral character? Are you good enough to meet your own standards, not to mention the standards by which you judge others? What if someone else tried to judge you by the same standards? How would you come out?

If someone has to introduce you and define you, how would they do it? I’m not after what’s on your resume, but that would be a good starting point, if you go from there and don’t just use that.

HI! I'm a martial arts expert!

F’r’instance, I have been introduced to various people at various times as: a son, brother, dad, husband, writer, hunter, fisherman, farmer, redneck, graphic artist, journalist, editor, author, photographer, preacher, pastor, evangelist and irrelevant. There are others but that gives you an idea.

Let’s get even more intense. How do you define yourself? If you had to introduce yourself to an alien being and describe who and what you what would you tell it? Not something so basic as human. I mean defining yourself as something you choose to be. See above.

“I am _______________________________.”

What about it? Are you really whatever you put in the blank? If you were arrested for that, could you be convicted of it?

The original quote is from Marc Mero, former pro rassler Johnny B Badd. He said “If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?”

Depending where in the world you happen to be arrested for being a Christian, that could be enough to convict you and sentence you to death. But Mero was not referring to that. He was talking about being arrested in a place which has full due process, discovery and discussion.

Most “Christians” I meet couldn’t even be charged with Christianity. A brief investigation would turn up so little evidence, the authorities would shrug it off and walk away without a second thought.

It ain't bragging if you can prove it.

Most churches I have been in, if the place was raided, nearly everyone in it would be released after a cursory chat with the raiding authorities.

How about it? Is there enough evidence to convict you?




Come of you are right now chuckling over my poking at Christians. Why? Are you better than they are?

Can you prove it?

Saying something is far different than proving it. I’m after solid, hold-up-in-court, empircial evidence.

Well?